Famous Milanese fashion house and ‘masters of colour' Missoni, took their extraordinary textiles into the home in1983. An explosion of colour, pattern and luxurious texture, the Missoni Home collection now incorporates design for every part of our lives from rugs and upholstery fabrics to bedding and towels, from crockery and glassware to soft furnishings and furniture. Spence and Lyda are the exclusive importers of Missoni Home and distribute it throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Legendary Italian Flatware Company Sambonet is one of the largest cookware manufacturers in Europe. They have a commitment to great design in this area and have employed some of the world’s greatest industrial designers to help fulfill this endeavor. They produce Flat wear and cookware of the finest quality incorporating a keen desire to produce pieces that are easy to cleanable and a pleasure to use. Contact us for any wholesale enquiries throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Los Angeles based company Modernica masterminded the 20th century furniture revival in the United States. During their 30 year searche for products they have came up with a number of original manufacturers and a keen love of the modernist style. Today amongst other things Modernica are the manufacturers of the Nelson Bubble lamps and The Fibreglass Shell Chairs. Modernica is distributed throughout Australia by Spence and Lyda.
Europa Design is devoted to manufacturing Classic Modern Lamps and Lighting to the highest possible quality. Featuring turned solid brass construction with heavy chrome plating, spun alluminuim and enamel coating all of their Pendant, Table Sconce or Floor lamps feature beautiful detail and workmanship.
Spence and Lyda's furniture collection is a dedication of not just great design but design that has soul.
Products that provide pleasure through the lines they create and materials they are realised in. Objects of beauty, that function supremely well, for all the areas within our lives from furniture to lighting to the services associated with all of those needs. Fiona Spence Lyda has dedicated her creativeness to resolving beautiful pieces of furniture that fit into any environment while serving a productive and qualitative product life.
In 1921 Bernard-Albin Gras designed a series of lamps for use in industrial environments and office. The gras lamp as it was subsequently called was astounding in its simple, robust and yet very ergonomic design. There are neither screws nor welded joints in the basic form. This lamp has been used buy a lot of famous architects over time such as Le-Corbusier in many of his interior designs and Pierre Jeanneret, Eileen Gray and Robert Mallet-Stevens and also used in houses in America alongside furniture designed by Mies Van der Rohe, Marcel Bruer etc. These lamps have a huge design pedigree and have been used extensively in offices and manufacturing environments as well as in residential.
Massproductions is a Stockholm based furniture company founded by London born Chris Martin and Swede Magnus Elebäck. The companies first collection was launched in early 2009 and has until now only been available in Sweden through selected stores in Stockholm and in Italy. Chris Martin and Magnus Elebäck met ten years ago and have since worked side by side as consultants for the furniture industry. With their accumulated knowledge from these years, they are now taking the next step by producing and marketing their own collection of furniture using a new and simple method for developing products. Massproductions develop high quality, tactile furniture in a modernist spirit.
Matthew Hilton is one of Britain's most highly respected designers. His understated meticulously detailed designs reflect a craftsman's understanding of natural materials & a profound understanding of manufacture, with many of his pieces already considered design classics.
Matthew's philosophy is about making design accessible: deftly creating his own range, using his key elements: flexibility, durability and boundless good taste.
His collection is available exclusively through Spence & Lyda.
Autoban is an Istanbul-based architecture, interior design and product design studio, founded by Seyhan Özdemir (architect) and Sefer Çaglar (interior architect) in the historic and bohemian district of Galata in 2003. Autoban designs reflect a Scandinavian influence through their use of natural materials, traditional craft and moderns forms. However, their influences come from all over the world, with their main inspiration stemming from everyday objects and rituals and the rich diversity of Istanbul.
The Surpil story, and that of the Stackable Furniture Company is first and foremost that of French inventor, Julien-Henri Porché, who, starting in 1927 turned his attention to designing furniture made entirely from metal for use in public spaces (restaurant terraces, cafés and other public areas).
Carpet Reloaded came about from a great inspiration. This exclusive limited-edition collection brings together carpets from the first and second halves of the 20th Century and reinterprets and reinvents them in new, surprising ways. Past meets present in a mix of ancient manufacturing know-how and contemporary design; models that have been decolorized and re-dyed, unthreaded and woven anew, cut and sewn back together by expert weavers who ably worked the original materials (cotton, wool, angora, black goat's wool, hemp, mohair, linen) respectfully.
Richard Ginori is an historical manufacture which has been producing tableware’s and artistic porcelain since 1735. Total living. Total look. Richard Ginori is knowledge, know how and wisdom stratified in the history of time and of our territory. Art and design are the core of Richard Ginori products. Synthesis of the made in Italy’s excellence all over the world. The will of Richard Ginori is to catch, absorb and interpret the life styles, the current trends and above all have a dialogue with a young and multi-ethnic audience offering an elegant and modern design.
